Fault-Tolerant and Dependable Systems

This group gathers pioneers of computer systems organization whose primary contribution was making computer systems keep working correctly in the presence of failure, including fault tolerant and highly available system design, redundancy and error correction techniques, autonomic and self managing computing systems that configure, heal and protect themselves, and the broader discipline of dependable systems engineering. It follows the Reliability strand of the ACM Computing Classification System's Computer systems organization area. Their shared work is a system's behavior under failure, as distinct from its everyday architecture, processor design or distributed coordination when nothing has gone wrong.